Zhúlóng: The most distant spiral galaxy

The image of Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy discovered to date. It has remarkably well-defined spiral arms, a central old bulge, and a large star-forming disk, resembling the structure of the Milky Way. This galaxy was discovered as part of the PANORAMIC Survey — a wide-area imaging survey being conducted with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The project is co-led by NSF NOIRLab assistant astronomer Christina Williams and Pascal Oesch of the University of Geneva (UNIGE).